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guaiacum
(encz) | guaiacum, n: |
Guaiacum
(gcide) | Guaiacum \Gua"ia*cum\, n. [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native
name in Haiti.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in
tropical America.
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2. The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum officinale
or lignum-vit[ae], a large tree of the West Indies and
Central America. It is much used in medicine. [Written
also guaiac.]
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guaiacum
(gcide) | Lignum-vitae \Lig"num-vi"tae\ (l[i^]g"n[u^]m v[imac]"t[=e]), n.
[L., wood of life; lignum wood + vita, genitive vit[ae],
life.] (Bot.)
A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of
America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured.
Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various
mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks,
cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In New Zealand the Metrosideros buxifolia is called
lignum-vit[ae], and in Australia a species of Acacia.
The bastard lignum-vit[ae] is a West Indian tree
(Sarcomphalus laurinus).
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guaiacum
(wn) | guaiacum
n 1: medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree
2: hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other
trees of the genus Guaiacum [syn: lignum vitae, guaiac,
guaiacum]
3: small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and
tropical America [syn: Guaiacum, genus Guaiacum] |
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guaiacum wood
(encz) | guaiacum wood, n: |
Guaiacum
(gcide) | Guaiacum \Gua"ia*cum\, n. [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native
name in Haiti.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in
tropical America.
[1913 Webster]
2. The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum officinale
or lignum-vit[ae], a large tree of the West Indies and
Central America. It is much used in medicine. [Written
also guaiac.]
[1913 Webster]Lignum-vitae \Lig"num-vi"tae\ (l[i^]g"n[u^]m v[imac]"t[=e]), n.
[L., wood of life; lignum wood + vita, genitive vit[ae],
life.] (Bot.)
A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of
America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured.
Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various
mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks,
cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In New Zealand the Metrosideros buxifolia is called
lignum-vit[ae], and in Australia a species of Acacia.
The bastard lignum-vit[ae] is a West Indian tree
(Sarcomphalus laurinus).
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Guaiacum officinale
(gcide) | Guaiacum \Gua"ia*cum\, n. [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native
name in Haiti.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in
tropical America.
[1913 Webster]
2. The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum officinale
or lignum-vit[ae], a large tree of the West Indies and
Central America. It is much used in medicine. [Written
also guaiac.]
[1913 Webster]Lignum-vitae \Lig"num-vi"tae\ (l[i^]g"n[u^]m v[imac]"t[=e]), n.
[L., wood of life; lignum wood + vita, genitive vit[ae],
life.] (Bot.)
A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of
America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured.
Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various
mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks,
cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In New Zealand the Metrosideros buxifolia is called
lignum-vit[ae], and in Australia a species of Acacia.
The bastard lignum-vit[ae] is a West Indian tree
(Sarcomphalus laurinus).
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genus guaiacum
(wn) | genus Guaiacum
n 1: small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm
and tropical America [syn: Guaiacum, genus Guaiacum] |
guaiacum officinale
(wn) | Guaiacum officinale
n 1: small evergreen tree of Caribbean and southern Central
America to northern South America; a source of lignum vitae
wood, hardest of commercial timbers, and a medicinal resin
[syn: lignum vitae, Guaiacum officinale] |
guaiacum sanctum
(wn) | Guaiacum sanctum
n 1: small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West
Indies a source of lignum vitae wood [syn: {bastard lignum
vitae}, Guaiacum sanctum] |
guaiacum wood
(wn) | guaiacum wood
n 1: heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in
perfumes [syn: guaiac wood, guaiacum wood] |
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